During this half term, I travelled down to London to visit the 'History Of Photography' exhibition and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The exhibition was extremely informative and consisted of many famous photographers work.
In 1852 the V&A became the first museum to collect photographs. Its collection is now among the most important in the world and forms the UK's national collection of the art of photography. The works in the gallery highlights from the permanent collection. They represent a wide range of uses, processes and styles of photography from its invention until the present.
The photographs currently on display were all made as series and sequences. From start, photographers documented, edited and interpreted the world through groups of images. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, systematic surveys of buildings, landscapes and people were used to compare, classify and record.
Series photographs enabled scientific observations, allowed multiple viewpoints and conveyed the passage of time. Today, photographic artists often use sequences to present a narrative or reveal subtleties of emotion.
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